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Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 19 (#1522)

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All the Wordle help you could possibly need.

15 attempts in, I actually love that Elden Ring Nightreign's Everdark Libra is the first FromSoftware boss who's harder to beat in co-op than solo

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Those crazy kids in Tokyo have done it again.

Not content with making three WW1 first-person shooters already, the creators of Verdun and Isonzo are now making a Gallipoli FPS

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BlackMill Games' latest will hit PC next year.

Analyst says EA plans to milk Battlefield for everything it's worth: 'Their goal is three studios making Battlefield on a 3-year basis, so they can get to Battlefield annually'

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EA is reportedly building up to Call of Duty's exhaustive 12-month cycle.

Roblox changes policies on 'romantic and sexual content' and promises better moderation on the way as Louisiana AG repeats assertion that the platform 'is a breeding ground for sex predators'

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Unrated experiences will only be accessible by their developers, and Roblox says it will roll out "new technology to detect violative scenes."

Dataminer casually shares alleged images of Battlefield 6's unreleased 'large' maps to reveal how big they really are

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If accurate, Battlefield 6's definition of "large" maps might, in fact, be pretty large.

Steam launches 'language-specific' review scores, because 'customers in different regions of the world may have vastly different experiences from each other for the same game'

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The new system, enabled by default, generates review scores based on your specific language, rather than all of them.

DICE lead responds to criticism that Battlefield 6 beta maps were 'not how Battlefield should be,' urges everyone to 'go play some smaller/medium maps in BF3 and BF4 to get a good example of the inten

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"It is slower and more deliberate on the larger maps, as it was in the past."

Nvidia's RTX Hair feature looks set to give the cast of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle some fabulously luscious locks

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Harrison Ford has been at the pomade, apparently.

Nvidia DLSS Override is getting a global toggle, allowing you to easily force Multi Frame Gen and transformer upscaling across all regular FG and DLSS games

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We're also getting a frame gen override stat in the stats overlay.

Nvidia announces the 'biggest launch in GeForce Now RTX history': RTX 5080 performance, local-style installs, better game streaming quality, and more

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The company is aiming to make GeForce Now streaming match local gaming.

Nvidia announces the official release of Smooth Motion for RTX 40-series GPUs, enabling Frame Generation in unsupported games

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Smooth frames in many, many games.

The new Fallout Season 2 images tease more pre-war flashbacks—which was honestly the best part of Fallout Season 1

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We're going to Vegas, both before and after the war.

Game publisher caught using AI-generated influencers in ads says they were submitted by TikTok users, will investigate 'irregularities' with the social media app

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A series of promos for The First Descendant features influencers taking up the game's new season—but they're not real.

Phasmophobia dev says there are 'plans for 1.0' and doesn't rule out a sequel: 'It would be a fun challenge to see if we could do another one'

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Hey, anybody seen a ghost?

Shenmue 3 is getting a dolled-up edition that makes John Shenmue more beautiful than ever before

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Um.

Can't afford the $7,000 gold-plated Asus RTX 5090? How about the downright reasonable $2,589 RTX 5080 Core version?

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It's practically budget. By comparison, I mean.

Legendary rapper Ice Cube is currently sitting at a PC denying Minecraft compensation claims

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Straight outta Stockholm.

Colorful's cat-themed B650 motherboard now has an optional kitty-based BIOS, a combination of words I really didn't think I'd be writing today

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FurMark scores are currently unknown. Yes, I know it's a GPU benchmark. I'm trying, okay?

You can already earn 24 exclusive items for Battlefield 6's launch, but I'm afraid you'll have to play Battlefield 2042 to get them

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Don't shoot the messenger.

How well do you know videogame NPCs? Put your memory to the test with our latest quiz

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They may not be the hero, but they deserve to be remembered.

If you're having a bad day, here's a pick-me-up: A bunch of Riot higher-ups had to talk about 'what the word goon meant' at a leadership meeting

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"That was a real thing that happened."

Sword of the Sea review

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A short but spectacular sword-surfing adventure.

China has reportedly told its data center operators to source more than 50% of their chips from domestic manufacturers in an effort to break away from US tech

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What was once a local policy now appears to be nationwide.

Mafia: The Old Country is getting an open-world mode, which is weird because it already has one

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Open².

We can't keep making videogame stories for players who aren't paying attention to them

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Let me get lost, I promise it's okay.

I've been humbled by a surprisingly robust roguelite action RPG where you control two characters at once

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Hades didn't prepare me for this.

'Someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money' says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about unwise AI investment. 'When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth'

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Not OpenAI investors, though. Obviously.

Here's how to watch all the announcements and world premieres at the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025

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I think it's cheating that you can see all this stuff without wading through a sea of gamers, personally.

'You will definitely see some companies go make Japanese anime sex bots,' says OpenAI's Sam Altman about AI relationships. 'You will not see us do that'

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Well, that's a... relief?

Peak devs admit they've been speaking through Bing Bong, but not anymore: 'Anyone claiming that the devs are joining them through Bing Bong, or any other way, they are full of sh*t'

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Unfortunately Peak's mascot won't be spreading wise words anymore.

EA's new Skate game will have live service seasons, and I'm trying not to let that Fortnite-type dread get to me

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Battle passes? Seasons? I just want to skate.

Disney Dreamlight Valley's newest update includes an Inside Out-themed realm, 2 characters, and a retro Star Path

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Joy and Sadness are making their way to the valley.

The deeply simulated roguelike strangeness of Caves of Qud won this year's Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work

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See, we were right to put it in our Top 100.

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 18 (#1521)

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Another fresh batch of hints and clues.

Sketch crew Aunty Donna's latest improv piece turned their set into a giant side-scrolling videogame and it's great

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A baby king flying about in a little hot air balloon is the least of their worries.

Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 18, 2025)

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Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.

There's already a rollback mod so you can once again kill the bosses in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers who were rendered unkillable in a patch

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No more Pokémon-style fainting.

My favorite new desktop buddy on Steam is a cat that goes fishing

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What if your wallpaper was a little fishing cat? What then?

'I always knew it was going to go away eventually:' Anthem producer Mark Darrah gives his take on Stop Killing Games ahead of his own project shutting down forever

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Darrah says that if we want to Stop Killing Games, there will be some tradeoffs—but maybe they’re worth it.

Actor Terence Stamp, who played General Zod in Superman and Mankar Camoran in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, has died

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Stamp was 87 years old.

Cars have had real-life DLC for a while, but now Volkswagen’s gone full pay to win, locking a car's max horsepower behind a subscription

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Pre-order now and save 10% on your horsepower subscription.

One of the devs behind System Shock and Thief wants to see more games catering to 'a new generation of folks discovering the game that demands more from them'

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"I think there's something there about a game that demands you put the pieces together in your head."

Rainbow Six Siege X is going absolutely bananas with laser tripwires next season

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Denari is a new defender with tripwire lasers that can go literally anywhere.

Homeworld 3 developer acquires the rights to its superior previous game about salvaging spaceships, with 'multiple' new projects in the works

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Focus Entertainment was previously co-owner.

Fighting games continue to hold the title for coolest videogame soundtracks of all time

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In the height of the FGC tournament season, I'm listening to a whole lotta battle-ready tunes.

1930s media mogul sim News Tower leaves early access in November, letting you build your journalism empire on the shoulders of the Mafia

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Embrace your inner J. Jonah Jameson in this newspaper tycoon game.

SnowRunner dev's latest vehicle sim lets you channel your inner Frank Sobotka by managing a struggling port

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Docked will soon be sailing to a harbour near you.

Starship Troopers: Extermination implements a 'total overhaul' to its spawning system, adding a Left 4 Dead style AI director: 'We realized that our original spawning system, while functional, was sta

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"The Director is a system that constantly evaluates the battlefield's state."

The First Descendant is using AI ads with weird digital clones of actual streamers

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The marketing copy sounds like it was written by an LLM too.

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 17 (#1520)

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Solve the daily puzzle in a flash.

Solid Snake actor David Hayter is no longer a hater of Metal Gear Solid 5, reveals it's his 'favorite gameplay of the series' despite his replacement in the lead role

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Perhaps the universal correct opinion on MGS5: We miss David Hayter, but it's still great.

Dawn of War: Definitive Edition sold 150,000 copies in its first day

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That's a lot of metal boxes.

On his 75th birthday, Apple legend Steve Wozniak pops up in a comment thread about his 'bad decision' to sell his stock in the '80s with a devastatingly zen reply: 'I gave all my Apple wealth away bec

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You gotta love the Woz.

I played this free, 15-minute claymation horror game about examining an ancient idol in the morning while the birds were chirping, and it still scared me more than anything I've played in years

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The protagonist of The Children of Clay should have also considered doing his thing in the morning.

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 16 (#1519)

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Whatever help you need, we've got it.

Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks the studio failed to 'prepare' fans for how different Dragon Age 2 was: 'People look at it and they're like, well this sure isn't Dragon Age: Origins 2, whic

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The best RPG spinoff ever made probably should have been called something different.

Sea of Thieves' latest update slips The Smugglers' League in through the back door, offering high-risk, high-reward voyages for the most daring pirates

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Season 17 kicks off in deliberately understated fashion.

Upcoming shooter Reaper Actual throws up some big red flags, but its creators are MMO and FPS heavyweights who can't easily be dismissed

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Optional Web3 stuff and AI generated flavor text don't help its appeal, but the PlanetSide 2 connection brings a lot of cred.

Get $170 worth of RPG books for $15 with the Witcher's TTRPG bundle

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The package nets you the core rulebook, several expansions and an easy mode.

Clockwork Revolution dev InXile worked on a Wasteland VR survival game with DayZ's former director—until Xbox cancelled it

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"Microsoft wasn't hot on VR."

As the legal debate between Subnautica 2's publisher and former studio execs rages, the original game and its spinoff quietly receive small patches and big discounts

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1.0 release adds a new class and a ship's hold's worth of balance changes.

A roguelike RPG companion betrayed me so badly that I manipulated cloud saves across two PCs to cheat death and throw him down a well

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Select spoilers for Sunless Skies follow. Though they’ll ensure you avoid my fate.

The sequel to Half-Life modding classic Pirates, Vikings & Knights quietly hit 1.0 after nearly 18 years of development: 'It's been over 6,500 days since PVK2 was unleashed'

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1.0 release adds a new class and a ship's hold's worth of balance changes.

Biwin has announced a teeny-tiny new type of SSD with shock and water resistance built-in, but it might be a while before you see one in your next mobile device

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MicroSD, eat your heart out. Prepare for Mini SSD.

Medion Erazer Deputy 15 P1 review

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The most budget RTX 5060 gaming laptop actually worth considering.

Robocop: Rogue City, which I admit I was completely wrong about, is just $5 in the Humble Store Summer Sale

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There are a lot of really good deals in this year's Humble Summer Sale, but Robocop for a fiver is surely one of the best.

Capcom's Monster Hunter Wilds updates have backed it into a corner

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Performance isn't the only problem Wilds hasn't fixed.

Overwatch 2's Wuyang is a DPS in disguise, and that could quickly become a problem

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A new hero for a very specific type of player.

I think I've found the actual best gun in the Battlefield 6 beta, and it's not the M87A1

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My favourite loadout in the beta.

How crossplay works (or rather, doesn't) in GTA 5 Enhanced

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GTA Online should have crossplay, but sadly even in 2025 it's still not an option.

Partying with Hololive vtubers is finally possible with an app that is basically VRChat for fans of anime girl streamers

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Holoearth is basically an official VRChat for vtuber fans.

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Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 19 (#1522)

15 attempts in, I actually love that Elden Ring Nightreign's Everdark Libra is the first FromSoftware boss who's harder to beat in co-op than solo

Not content with making three WW1 first-person shooters already, the creators of Verdun and Isonzo are now making a Gallipoli FPS

Analyst says EA plans to milk Battlefield for everything it's worth: 'Their goal is three studios making Battlefield on a 3-year basis, so they can get to Battlefield annually'

Roblox changes policies on 'romantic and sexual content' and promises better moderation on the way as Louisiana AG repeats assertion that the platform 'is a breeding ground for sex predators'

Dataminer casually shares alleged images of Battlefield 6's unreleased 'large' maps to reveal how big they really are

Steam launches 'language-specific' review scores, because 'customers in different regions of the world may have vastly different experiences from each other for the same game'

DICE lead responds to criticism that Battlefield 6 beta maps were 'not how Battlefield should be,' urges everyone to 'go play some smaller/medium maps in BF3 and BF4 to get a good example of the inten

Nvidia's RTX Hair feature looks set to give the cast of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle some fabulously luscious locks

Nvidia DLSS Override is getting a global toggle, allowing you to easily force Multi Frame Gen and transformer upscaling across all regular FG and DLSS games

Nvidia announces the 'biggest launch in GeForce Now RTX history': RTX 5080 performance, local-style installs, better game streaming quality, and more

Nvidia announces the official release of Smooth Motion for RTX 40-series GPUs, enabling Frame Generation in unsupported games

The new Fallout Season 2 images tease more pre-war flashbacks—which was honestly the best part of Fallout Season 1

Game publisher caught using AI-generated influencers in ads says they were submitted by TikTok users, will investigate 'irregularities' with the social media app

Phasmophobia dev says there are 'plans for 1.0' and doesn't rule out a sequel: 'It would be a fun challenge to see if we could do another one'

Shenmue 3 is getting a dolled-up edition that makes John Shenmue more beautiful than ever before

Can't afford the $7,000 gold-plated Asus RTX 5090? How about the downright reasonable $2,589 RTX 5080 Core version?

Legendary rapper Ice Cube is currently sitting at a PC denying Minecraft compensation claims

Colorful's cat-themed B650 motherboard now has an optional kitty-based BIOS, a combination of words I really didn't think I'd be writing today

You can already earn 24 exclusive items for Battlefield 6's launch, but I'm afraid you'll have to play Battlefield 2042 to get them

How well do you know videogame NPCs? Put your memory to the test with our latest quiz

If you're having a bad day, here's a pick-me-up: A bunch of Riot higher-ups had to talk about 'what the word goon meant' at a leadership meeting

Sword of the Sea review

China has reportedly told its data center operators to source more than 50% of their chips from domestic manufacturers in an effort to break away from US tech

Mafia: The Old Country is getting an open-world mode, which is weird because it already has one

We can't keep making videogame stories for players who aren't paying attention to them

I've been humbled by a surprisingly robust roguelite action RPG where you control two characters at once

'Someone is going to lose a phenomenal amount of money' says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about unwise AI investment. 'When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth'

Here's how to watch all the announcements and world premieres at the Future Games Show at Gamescom 2025

'You will definitely see some companies go make Japanese anime sex bots,' says OpenAI's Sam Altman about AI relationships. 'You will not see us do that'

Peak devs admit they've been speaking through Bing Bong, but not anymore: 'Anyone claiming that the devs are joining them through Bing Bong, or any other way, they are full of sh*t'

EA's new Skate game will have live service seasons, and I'm trying not to let that Fortnite-type dread get to me

Disney Dreamlight Valley's newest update includes an Inside Out-themed realm, 2 characters, and a retro Star Path

The deeply simulated roguelike strangeness of Caves of Qud won this year's Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 18 (#1521)

Sketch crew Aunty Donna's latest improv piece turned their set into a giant side-scrolling videogame and it's great

Five new Steam games you probably missed (August 18, 2025)

There's already a rollback mod so you can once again kill the bosses in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers who were rendered unkillable in a patch

My favorite new desktop buddy on Steam is a cat that goes fishing

'I always knew it was going to go away eventually:' Anthem producer Mark Darrah gives his take on Stop Killing Games ahead of his own project shutting down forever

Actor Terence Stamp, who played General Zod in Superman and Mankar Camoran in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, has died

Cars have had real-life DLC for a while, but now Volkswagen’s gone full pay to win, locking a car's max horsepower behind a subscription

One of the devs behind System Shock and Thief wants to see more games catering to 'a new generation of folks discovering the game that demands more from them'

Rainbow Six Siege X is going absolutely bananas with laser tripwires next season

Homeworld 3 developer acquires the rights to its superior previous game about salvaging spaceships, with 'multiple' new projects in the works

Fighting games continue to hold the title for coolest videogame soundtracks of all time

1930s media mogul sim News Tower leaves early access in November, letting you build your journalism empire on the shoulders of the Mafia

SnowRunner dev's latest vehicle sim lets you channel your inner Frank Sobotka by managing a struggling port

Starship Troopers: Extermination implements a 'total overhaul' to its spawning system, adding a Left 4 Dead style AI director: 'We realized that our original spawning system, while functional, was sta

The First Descendant is using AI ads with weird digital clones of actual streamers

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 17 (#1520)

Solid Snake actor David Hayter is no longer a hater of Metal Gear Solid 5, reveals it's his 'favorite gameplay of the series' despite his replacement in the lead role

Dawn of War: Definitive Edition sold 150,000 copies in its first day

On his 75th birthday, Apple legend Steve Wozniak pops up in a comment thread about his 'bad decision' to sell his stock in the '80s with a devastatingly zen reply: 'I gave all my Apple wealth away bec

I played this free, 15-minute claymation horror game about examining an ancient idol in the morning while the birds were chirping, and it still scared me more than anything I've played in years

Today's Wordle clues, hints and answer for August 16 (#1519)

Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks the studio failed to 'prepare' fans for how different Dragon Age 2 was: 'People look at it and they're like, well this sure isn't Dragon Age: Origins 2, whic

Sea of Thieves' latest update slips The Smugglers' League in through the back door, offering high-risk, high-reward voyages for the most daring pirates

Upcoming shooter Reaper Actual throws up some big red flags, but its creators are MMO and FPS heavyweights who can't easily be dismissed

Get $170 worth of RPG books for $15 with the Witcher's TTRPG bundle

Clockwork Revolution dev InXile worked on a Wasteland VR survival game with DayZ's former director—until Xbox cancelled it

As the legal debate between Subnautica 2's publisher and former studio execs rages, the original game and its spinoff quietly receive small patches and big discounts

A roguelike RPG companion betrayed me so badly that I manipulated cloud saves across two PCs to cheat death and throw him down a well

The sequel to Half-Life modding classic Pirates, Vikings & Knights quietly hit 1.0 after nearly 18 years of development: 'It's been over 6,500 days since PVK2 was unleashed'

Biwin has announced a teeny-tiny new type of SSD with shock and water resistance built-in, but it might be a while before you see one in your next mobile device

Medion Erazer Deputy 15 P1 review

Robocop: Rogue City, which I admit I was completely wrong about, is just $5 in the Humble Store Summer Sale

Capcom's Monster Hunter Wilds updates have backed it into a corner

Overwatch 2's Wuyang is a DPS in disguise, and that could quickly become a problem

I think I've found the actual best gun in the Battlefield 6 beta, and it's not the M87A1

How crossplay works (or rather, doesn't) in GTA 5 Enhanced

Partying with Hololive vtubers is finally possible with an app that is basically VRChat for fans of anime girl streamers

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